nimbleal

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by nimbleal 6y ago
I was about to comment the same, but with Wechat. I can’t not use wechat, much as I’d like to. I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t significantly more difficult/impossible to integrate though.
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by nimbleal 6y ago
I didn’t know this had a name, but it’s long been a cause of amusement (or despair!) for me. I too have noticed that any time I read an article on a subject on which I have even a passable level of expertise, I find it chock-full of errors.
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by nimbleal 6y ago
I see this “mainly to prevent uprisings” idea asserted in lots of places but it strikes me as highly cynical. What’s the evidence this is the case? Even if a social policy was first introduced in response to uprisings, that doesn’t demonstr
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by nimbleal 6y ago
Interested to know you see the drone strike app as a left issue? I don’t think opinions on foreign intervention fall very neatly along the left-right spectrum
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by nimbleal 6y ago
This is possibly a self-destructive pattern, too. Once nobody can find anything outside of Quora/Wikipedia/Pinterest/Stackoverflow etc. why would anyone bother creating small sites/blogs (this has been happening already
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by nimbleal 6y ago
> Computers are metaphors on top of metaphors This may be true of our perception of “real life” too, of course, in which case computer interfaces are not something different, just an extra couple of layers
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by nimbleal 6y ago
Just picking your comment as one of a number of similar examples to reply to. Apologies if I’ve misunderstood the intent of these comments, but —- what is the argument that connects “alcohol is more destructive” to “cannabis (and perhaps ot
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by nimbleal 6y ago
This would seem to be quite obviously correct. Perhaps this comment’s downvoters could explain why they disagree?
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by nimbleal 6y ago
It may be deterministic, but are you sure it would be computable? One does not necessarily imply the other.
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by nimbleal 6y ago
My understanding is that kicking something about with the aim of getting it somewhere or other existed in lots of different places, independently. The modern, codified game more or less resembling what we have today was invented in England.
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by nimbleal 6y ago
Democracy in the modern sense (universal suffrage, very large polities) is too recent an experiment to have strong data on that — the vast majority of the democratic experiment has been conducted under a US hegemony. I’m not sure the (also
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by nimbleal 6y ago
I think parent’s point is that these measures are intended to stretch out the curve so the peak is lower (not overwhelming) but the area under the curve is the same (same total deaths). The hope is of course that a vaccine chops off its rig
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by nimbleal 6y ago
Surely, unless the claim was that in all cases, everywhere a new road means new levels of traffic to fill it, a single counterexample does nothing to expose a fallacy? I feel like your “inevitably” here is a bit strawman-y
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by nimbleal 6y ago
In visits to a number of developing countries I’ve made the same observation: driving from the wealthy, developed part where we were staying, out of the city and into the countryside I’d notice that the very worst poverty seemed to be not i
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by nimbleal 6y ago
> there’s an overabundance of ... skilled photographers I’m really not sure this is the case. I know more about cinematography than photography (I direct) but here in China a decent cinematographer can charge for a day what some workers
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by nimbleal 8y ago
> Um, lunatic, obviously He would accept that answer (at least if we take the trilemma argument in isolation). The point is not that he is "Lord", but that good teacher is not one of the viable options[1]. You clearly have